I listen to a lot of Viking/Folk metal, and the genre is over-saturated. That being said, this album should not rank as highly as it does here. There are albums from Amon Amarth, Equilibrium, Windir, Nokturnal Mortem, even Svartsot that smash this album to peices. The instrumentation is just okay, and the vocals...shudder. They made me cringe every time the lead tried to "sing." He should stick to screaming and leave the clean singing to the backup vocalist who can actually, ya know, sing. Awful. I give this album a 5. It's not terrible, but the vocals in particular just kill the whole thing for me.

I listen to a lot of Viking/Folk metal, and the genre is over-saturated. That being said, this album should not rank as highly as it does here. There are albums from Amon Amarth, Equilibrium, Windir, Nokturnal Mortem, even Svartsot that smash this album to peices. The instrumentation is just okay, and the vocals...shudder. They made me cringe every time the lead tried to "sing." He should stick to screaming and leave the clean singing to the backup vocalist who can actually, ya know, sing. Awful. I give this album a 5. It's not terrible, but the vocals in particular just kill the whole thing for me.

Wouldn't say that copycat Equilibrium smahes this album plus this isn't best album what this band has to offer.